Pio Nono College (Wisconsin)

The Catholic Normal School and Pio Nono College, also known as Holy Family Normal School, was a paired institution (sharing the same faculty) in St. Francis, Wisconsin, founded in 1870 by Rev. Dr. Joseph Salzmann as the first Catholic normal school in the United States. The Normal School specialized in training young men in music education, while Pio Nono was a business college. In 1922, Pio Nono became a high school, serving boys in grades nine to 12. The school merged with Don Bosco High School in 1972 to form St. Thomas More High School.